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Now is the best time to start a company
“The real energy comes from meeting people at the very beginning of their entrepreneurial journey.”
With these words, Julian Teicke, Serial Founder (e.g. wefox, handly, hallo theo), opened the Swiss startup days 2026, motivating everybody to take their chance today, to meet as many people as possible. Switzerland’s startup ecosystem is a fast moving market, but good deep tech technology needs time — and time needs capital.
Meet the Swiss startup ecosystem
The Swiss startup days 2026 were all about bringing the leading deep tech startups of Switzerland together. Over 1,500 founders, investors, corporates, and innovators met in Bern to shake hands and exchange ideas. The participants scheduled over 400 1:1 meetings, experienced a buzzing networking area and a lively exhibition zone. It was again the perfect stage to be part of the discussions building the future of Switzerland. The 40+ expert-led sessions and 30+ partners on-site provided valuable insights and support to the #SUD26 experience.
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A program built to spark action
7 tracks, 40+ sessions, 150+ speakers — spread across the Arena, the AI Stage, the Unplugged Stage and seven Panorama rooms. From pitching fundamentals and IP basics to VC financing rounds and international scaling, the program was built for founders at every stage, not just the ones already on a big funding round.
Newcomers 2026
18 startups in the pre-seed or seed phase pitched live in front of the jury and audience — not lifestyle apps, but technologies from research labs, universities and highly specialized industries. The jury didn’t debate visions, but production readiness, regulation and scalability.
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Bios Medical AG
BIOS Medical enables safe rehabilitation at home instead of costly inpatient care by making orthopedic implants smart.
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femtoG
Powder quality failures cost industry $25B annually because all existing analyzers assume particles are spherical. femtoG’s non-optical analyzers simultaneously measure particle mass, size, and density without assumptions, giving powder producers the structural fingerprint they need to control quality, accelerate R&D, and enable new materials.
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FireDrone AG
FireDrone builds heat-resilient drones for firefighting and high-temperature industrial inspections, delivering real-time situational awareness and data collection in environments up to 200°C where people and conventional UAVs cannot operate.
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IMPLANZ AG
Our AI-powered clinical decision intelligence platform transforms 3D scans with cutting-edge computer simulation to predict treatment outcomes before implant surgery. IMPLANZ enables confident surgical planning with peace of mind for dentists, smoother patient experience, and increased operational efficiency for dental clinics, and labs.
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InTeeth
Today, every patient looking for orthodontic treatment face this trade-off: metal braces are visible, lingual braces are costly and painfull, and clear aligners have limited efficacy. InTeeth lifts this compromise with InLiner™: a truly invisible, behind-the-teeth aligner that combines comfort, precision, and faster treatment.
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kuafu
kuafu develops the grid-edge copilot for the energy system, enabling grid operators to manage congestion and prevent blackouts by leveraging resources such as EVs, batteries, and heat pumps in buildings. As a grid-edge orchestration hub, kuafu coordinates these resources to reduce grid costs while ensuring efficient operation for buildings.
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nordfen
nordfen automates the creation of 3D simulation environments from satellite imagery and geodata using machine learning and AI-powered scenario generation. Gov validated. Cash-Flow positive.
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OrthoSens
Hospitals lose millions on post-surgical complications they can’t see coming. OrthoSens turns standard orthopedic implants into connected data revenue engines, using battery-free sensors to enable continuous remote patient monitoring, 250x smaller than battery-powered alternatives. Zero surgical workflow change or 2nd extraction surgery risk.
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Prevision Medicine AG
Prevision Medicine commercializes a precision oncology tests that measures, on live cells of each patient, which drugs or combinations are most effective to treat the patient’s cancer.
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RAROG
RAROG develops portable RF detectors that help rescuers quickly locate people in distress by detecting the WiFi and Bluetooth emissions of personal electronic devices such as smartphones, watches, and other wearables, turning devices people already carry into rescue beacons.
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Santella
Santella provides a sustainable and innovative solution: the world’s first targeted probiotic live vaccines for use in livestock species. By reducing the reliance on antibiotics, it directly supports the goals of the WHO Global Action Plan on AMR, while offering producers a practical and effective tool to safeguard animal health and productivity.
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Thermal Transformer AG
Data center operators’ #1 pain point is rising power and cooling demand. Thermal Transformer de-electrifies AI data center cooling by turning low-grade GPU waste heat into cooling for the rest of the facility with a novel, heat-driven adsorption chiller – lowering site power draw, easing grid constraints, and unlocking more compute.
Two Stages, Two Angles
AI Stage
AI is no longer a hype topic — it’s a business field with its own rules, and the AI Stage was where those rules got debated in the open.
Hosted together with the ETH AI Center, the stage brought researchers, founders and investors together across sessions like “Building Europe’s Next Scaleups,” “Open Source AI as a Strategic Advantage” and “Funding the Future of AI.” The conversations moved from open-source vs. proprietary technology to the harder question underneath: how do AI startups actually get funded, and what does it take for a European AI company to scale globally rather than get acquired early. It was less about the promise of AI and more about the mechanics of building a real company on top of it.
Unplugged Stage
The normal state of a startup isn’t stability — and on the Unplugged Stage, founders said so out loud.
Kilian Wagner (VIU), Christian Fischer (Bcomp), Leila Delarive (Hoopit) and Sebastian Beetschen (RealWear) traded the pitch-deck version of their companies for the real one: decisions that only look right — or wrong — in hindsight, setbacks that didn’t make it into any press release, and the daily reality of building something nobody has proo
Empowering female innovation
The Collective Gathering (20 May 2026, pre-event) brought together around 100 founders, investors and entrepreneurs from the Swiss startup scene. At the center were personal experiences: Christa Bösch (co-founder of Ottolinger) spoke about improvisation over masterplans — “We simply didn’t know how to do it properly” — while Friederike Waldenfels spoke about uncertainty, personal setbacks and the importance of networks.
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